Verizon's Glenn Wellbrock Talks Network Unification With Ciena

Glenn Wellbrock, Verizon's director of optical transport architecture, talks to Ciena's Kevin Sheehan about the goals and challenges with Verizon's initiative to consolidate and operate a single seamless network infrastructure with their One Network initiative.

Glenn details how Verizon is pulling together its disparate networks into one infrastructure domain to achieve a simplified architecture from access to core that delivers greater capability and more savings.

This unified transport network enables Verizon to:

1) More efficiently pack wavelengths across the network

2) Effectively leverage software automation, SDN, and orchestration

3) Deploy mesh networks all the way to the metro

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